Jumping spiders, which use their four pairs of big eyes to spot prey so that they can pounce, can spend a lot of the night just hanging around literally.
Jumping spiders, which use their four pairs of big eyes to spot prey so that they can pounce, can spend a lot of the night just hanging around literally.
Little is known about the night-time habits of tiny creatures all around us. Take the jumping spider it mysteriously can spend much of the night suspended in mid-air, hanging by a thread.
Little is known about the night-time habits of tiny creatures all around us. Take the jumping spider it mysteriously can spend much of the night suspended in mid-air, hanging by a thread.
Cell’s publisher invites statements in papers about studies’ diversity and inclusion efforts
Jan. 14, 2021 , 10:05 AM
After reading a paper about Amazonian frogs in May 2020, behavioral ecologist Daniela Roessler of Harvard University was astonished. The study named 27 authors, all male. The publication sparked an outcry on Twitter for more diversity in science. Roessler and colleagues then wrote a letter to journal publishers suggesting a way for authors to help advance that goal: publicly declare in their submitted manuscripts whether they had considered diversity, equity, and inclusion in the study.
Last week, Cell Press, publisher of more than 50 journals, became one of the first publlshers to invite authors to do so. The publisher whose titles include the prestigious